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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-03
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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-03
CHEsAPEAKE AND OHIO ROUTE
SCHEDULE IN EFFECT SEPTEMBER
llTH, 1881

LEAVE RICHMOND:
$40 am For Newport News, Old Point Con-.
fort and Norfolk, daily except Sun
day.
lilo am Through and Local Mail 10 oil
points West. Sleepers from Clifton
Forge 10 Louisville and st. Louis.
except Sunday.
400 pm For Newport's News Old Point and
Norfolk. Except Sunday.
400 pm Charlottesville accommodation.
Except Sunday.
$50 pm For Louisville, Cincinnati, Chic6gO-
st. Louis, Memphis, and New Or.
leans. Fast Express, with through
Pullmans Daily. Only route run
ming Pullmans West from Rich.
mOnd
SUNDAY EXCURSION
to Newport News, Old Point, and
Norfolk AZ ) am.
ARRIVE RICHMOND:
S:25 am Charlottesville accommodation
except Sunday
Hos am From Norfolk, Old Point, and
Newport News, except Sunday.
1850 pm From Local points and the west,
daily except Sunday.
6:S5 pm From Norfolk. Old Point and New.
port News, daily.
$40 pm From Louisville and Cincinnati,
Fast Express daily.
Sunday excursion train from Old
Point and Newport News arrives in
Richmond at b.35 pm.
Depot Seventeenth and Broad streets.
1000 Main street and depot.
II. w. FULLER,
General Passenger Agent.
WINS, c. WICKHAM. Second Vice President.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-03
4 TLANTIC COAST LINE.

RICHMOND AND PETERSBURG RAIL
ROAD TIME TABLE.
Commencing SUNDAY. sept. II, 1887, trains
on this road will run as follows
TRAINS SOUTHWARK.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-27
COMMENT AND OPINION.

WHERE the interests of the Democratic party
are to he subserved. the Hon Henry Watterson
is bad adviser. Not because he is a bad man,
but because he is good man gone wrong. We
admire Mr. Wattcrson. and we like his style,
but his enthusiasm makes the blood run cold
Atlanta Constitution.
THE more times in year can put Of
concern for the cares Of the business day and ell
ter into the spirit of merriment or gladness or
restfulness that attends the holiday, the better
not only for him but for family. and city. and ma
ton as well. If nature is conservator of matter
is she the priestess of sentiment The laugh
that slips away into echo and ceases TO be heard
is more lost than the star that fails 1t W II
sometimes ring back upon the soul like old
sic sweetened with nlemories.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
WE may credit Harper's Weekly with two
hundred votes. the New York Times with
hundred and fifty, the New York Evening Post
with one hundred the New York Herald with
one hundred and Henry Ward Beecher with
seventy-iv and then the combination defeated
Blaine But we must be excused from joining
in the outcry that the plurality of one-eleventh
of one per cent. of the vote of New York repre-
scented the will of the people the voice of God
in any startling sense.-Cincinnat Commercial
Gazette.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-27
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

NATURE is full of wise provisions. Wives do
their worst cooking when they are young and
irresistible.
SEVERAL German firms have given notice that
they will adopt Voapuk in corresponding with
English manufacturers.
A NEW YORK firm sent large order to Mich
igan for .iwish-bon to be gilded and fastened
to good luck cards for Christmas.
A FLORIDA paper complains that there are in
that State too many lawyers, doctors, preach
ers editors and tramps, and not enough men
who earn their living by the sweat of their
brow"
COMEDIAN CRANE says he will never eat beef
steak again, no matter how it may be served.
This resolution is due to the fact that Mr. Crane
recently one of party of ten who con-
sumed fifty pounds of STEAK at a single sitting
GENERAL TERRY has been granted four
months leave of absence and will pass the win
ter in Florida. His health is much impaired
During his absence the division of the Mis-
souri, will be under the command of General
Crook.
SOME one approached General Sherman the
other day with the old talk about his being
strong candidate for the presidency. The old
General was as prompt and vigorous as usual in
the good mouth filling words with which he de-
clared that he would not have 1t on any terms
But" said he II viii be publc-spirited
about it as ARENAS Ward was about the war.
You know he said this bloody war should be
prosecuted if it took the last one of his wife's
relations. If the Republicans want a candidate
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-27

WITH its usual penchant for epithet the
Sentinel quotes from an article in the Journal
upon the purpose and effect of protective
tariff. the following sentence:
1.-The tariff on manufactures has educated
our people in handicraft. so that we can pro
duce goods for less than half we formerly
paid for them, and under this policy we not
only get cheaper goods, but furnish work for
our laborers at higher wages than they received
in former times"
And calls it ''assininity," and refers to the
Journal as ga consummate ass" OF course
the Journal could not have an argument with
the Sentinel upon the tariff any other
question; hut we merely allude to this to
refer our esteemed contemporary to the opin-
ion of Alexander Hamilton. elsewhere quoted
The Journal is quite willing to be in the COM
pany of such "a consummate ass" as Alexan-
der Hamilton, even at the risk of sacrificing
the companionship of Grover Cleveland or of
the Chesterfield who presides over the columns
Of the Sentinel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-27

CONGRESSMAN GLOVER, of Missouri, is an
aspirant for the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination and seems willing to work pretty
hard for it. The st. Louis Republican SAYS
he has distributed fifty thousand circulars
among representative Democrats, in which,
after informing them that he has had the
pleasure of sending them an occasional docu-
ment, he says:
Il have taken the liberty OF placing your
name on my mailing list for the ensuing ses-
sion, but l desire to know in what subjects
you are most interested, and whether there
is any particular publication you would like
to have. | should be very glad at the same
time to have your views in regard to legisla-
ton you may deem desirable"
This beats the seed business hollow. There
few men but VINO will be captured by the
polite request for an expression of their views
in regard to desirable legislation. But sup
pose few thousand should comply with the
request. what terrible predicament Mr.
Glover would be in.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-27
As soon as practicable after the holidays,

AS soon as practicable after the holidays,
Congressman Mason. of Illinois. will intro
duce the following resolution in the House:
Whereas. Some of the necessaries of life,
particularly coal and sugar are placed at an
unreasonable price by what are known as
trusts, and
Whereas. Such trusts ,or combinations
are said to be taking advantage of our tariff
laws which are intended for protection to the
laborers and manufacturers, and giving effect
to such laws in direct opposition to the effect
intended to be given to the same, therefore
be it
Resolved, That the judiciary committee of
the House be directed to investigate the said
charges and determine. first, what effect said
trusts have upon the price of the necessaries
of life, and whether the same prejudicial
to the interests of the people; and, secondly,
what steps, if any, are necessary for the
desired relief, and to report the same at as
early date as possible to this house by bill
or otherwise"
Mr.. Mason is on the right track. AS e
Republican, he avows himself in favor of
protective tariff, but proposes to see if way
cannot be found to prevent "syndicates" and
trusts" from perverting the tariff into
means of expressing those it is intended to
benefit
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-27
Julian. the Ancient.



A horrible rumor comes over the wires to the
effect that George w. Julian is to be appointed
in place of the late Sparks. What malignant
aarmist could have invented this story it is i'm
possible to conjecture. Possibly IL was some
friend of the late Commissioner who wished to
advise the country that there evils greater
than Sparks, and such as it dreamed not of. The
bonfreS and publications of the settlers IN Da-
kota are evidences that they believed that no
greater affection than Sparks WAS possible in
the nature of things. but they may yet learn
that it is the unexpected that always happens.
They doubtless believed, with the great mass of
the American people. that Julian was dead.
They knew that he was a contemporary OF Cot
ton Mathe:-that he had raised most Internal
rumpus when the resolutions of 50 were passed
that he took part in the Rhode Island war. and
the Pennsylvania rebellion on both sides,-that
he killed Lundy's Lane. yet took part
with Blennerhassett in his troubles-that he
built the underground railway before Gar
rison was born, and having been 'tbe
original Abolitionist," has belonged TO every
party since the Barn-burners turned New York
upside down. Yet he-e he Is. and he hobs up
IS serenely though he had never been Free
soil candidate for President. had never been
cowhded by United States Marshal Meredith,
had never been tramped Upon by Morton, had
never eulogiZed and then denounced every pub
lie man, measure and party since Alexander
Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson divided our
young Republic on questions LONG since dead ana
buried. Julian is alive, and Notwithstanding
the fact that the announcement that his ances-
tor, Julian the AposIate, was alive and now rui-
ing in Rome would scarcely create greater sur
prise, it is nevertheless a melanchoiy fact Inc
records of the General Land Office prove It His
name stands upon the rolls as encouragement
of Ne Mexico. He competed with Sparks for tho
place of Commissioner. and. being defeated. re-
tired to the sand hills of New Mexico. vowins
vengeance and swearing he would be even vet
There is suspicion that the administration
is borrowing strategy from the old Thebans,
who dug up dead general accoutered him in
his ancient armor, tied him upon his old war
horse and advanced with him at the head OF his
columns against their affrighted enemies 1t is
recorded that the ruse WAS successful. and that,
living dead. Epaminondas carried terror into
the ranks Of his enemies IL the new commits
sioner is Julian, the settlers in the far West
might well extInguish their bonfires and
hunt their holes with the CELEBRITY of prairie
dogs. The man that made Jefferson admit that
he trembled for his country and lay awake
listening for a fire bell at night is. living
dead. object o. terror, compared which
Sparks is as Boulauger to Napoleon, Toraue-
madE TO Alva, Nebuchadnezza- TO Ghenghis
Khan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-27

SOME free trade crank by the name of Cod
man has been writing bran-bread arguments
on the tariff for such Juvenile papers as the
New York Evening Post in which the old
Chestnut" is paraded about a duty of 112
per cent on the poor mans blanket. If this
were true according to Mr.. Cleveland's state
mentand argument that the duty increases the
cost by the precise sum imposed. then if the
duty were removed blankets ought to have
been imported and sold for II per cent. less
than nothing; in other words, the blankets
should have been given away, and premium
of IL per cent added to those who would accept
the gifts Yet this sort of twaddle is swal-
lowed by some people who love to fancy
themselves advanced" thinkers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-27

CHICAGO has a Volapuk academy, school
of instruction in Volapuk. A person who
signs himself Director of the Academy claims,
in a Chicago paper. that the new language is
bound to become universal, and that English
will soon become subservient to it-a mere
agent for the diffusion of Volapuk To
quote from the Directors letter: "In vain
will the opponents of Volapuk try to over
throw it; never will they be able to shake its
foundation. for it is built on an immovable
rock. There it stands snow forever like the
'Bartholdi Statue of Liberty enlightening
the universe, soaring over the two worlds as
tie of universal brother" Really, if that is
an average specimen of the Directors English,
we should say that the sooner he exchanges. it
for Volapuk the better By the way, the friends
of Volapuk called in that gibberish ''Vol-
apuk- Aliens very good name for them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-27

THE Secretary of War has oplered an inqui-
records of the department ought to be de-
stroyed and it is said the records of the Freed
mans Bureau have already been designated
for destruction. This is an extraordinary pro-
ceedng. The Secretary has no more right to
destroy public records than he had to return
captured battle-fags. Public records are pub
lie property, and those of the war period pos
sess historic as we'll as documentary value.
The records of the Freedman's Bureau contain
many evidences of Democratic outrages in the
South after the war, and probably for that
reason it is proposed to destroy them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-27
THE ELEVENTH CENSUS.

The committee on rules in the House of
Representatives has created committee on
the eleventh census, with Mr.. Cox as chair
man. He served on the last committee is
thoroughly familiar with census work and al
most an enthusiast in regard to it. He says
cit is a congenial occupation, and being
somewhat familiar with the data and facts, as
we'll those which I collated myself as those
collated in the exhaustive and able report of
General Garfield, of the ninth census, l may
save good deal of labor for others, and at
the same time enjoy again the study of our
witnessed, either at home or abroad, in the
Orient or Occiient, there is nothing so mar
velous as the increase of our country in all
that makes up the wealth OF the nations"
Mr. Cox will soon introduce bill relative to
the next census. and it will probably pass at
this session of Congress. The census will be
taken in June, 1890, and the intervening
time will be spent by the superintendent in
getting ready for it. The work consists of
three stages-the collection OF the material,
us ltOuidtlOu anu siildlHSis, anu puOIlc6-
ton. OF these the first is the least laborious,
and can be completed in a very short time
after the preliminary arrangements made.
The principal labor, and the most important
and difficult part of the work, is tabulating
and Analysing the results, and the methods of
doing this have to be arranged in advance of
collecting the materials. The preparation of
blanks for obtaining manufacturing and eco
nomic statistics also involves much expert
labor, so that it will be none too early to begin
the preliminary work as the bill shall
be passed. The taking of census is pretty
expensive work. The last oue-that of 1880
cost, including printing, So, 785, 254. 70 di-
vided as follows: Enumerators, So, 095 500. 80;
special agents, $685., O67. %; printing reports,
$67s, 624. 81; superintendent office, So, 1885,
999.50. 1t is proposed to try and limit the
cost of the next census TO Sc, 600, 900. which,
in view of the increase in population, ETC.,
would be a saving on the last one. It is more
than likely, however, that when the work is
concluded the cost will be found to have ex-
ceeded the estimate. Our decennal censuses
come high, but we must have them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-27

A PROMINENT Southern lawyer, now on the
bench, and who shows a familiarity with
Lamars political history. writes to the
Washington Republican that the nominee to
the Supreme Bench should not be remembered
as the eulogisr OF Davis, but as the advocate
of doctrines which led to the Chisolm muir
der. He further makes the point that if such
charges these brought against Lamar were
true against applicant for village post
Office in the South, he would be rejected and
the President rebuked for his attempt to re-
ward such men. This is a keen thrust that
pierces through tie weak argument that
Senatorial courtesy demands Lamars con-
frmation. The Republican Senators who
vote for Lamar cannot hereafter consistently
refuse to confirm the appointment to Office of
any who has participated dire city or
indirectly in the political outrages and social
crimes that have marked the history of the
South since the war.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-27

Mrs. FRANCES E. WILLARD has written a
letter to Mr.. William J. Box, of Brooklyn re-
ferring to Mr.. Whittier's eightieth birthday
niversary, follows:
''WoMAN's NATIONAL CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE)
UNION, Pr SIDENTS OFFICE,
EVANSTON, H., Dec. D. 1887. }
kind Friend-The early home of John Green
leaf Whittier Americas and woman's laureate.
a home celebrated in some of the most cherished
verse yet penned. ought, like Mount Vernon, to
belong to America. When visited it, near Ha-
verhiIl, Mass, some years ago, 1T was in the
hands of tenants, whose habits of living
such to make my pilgrimage penance. To
purchase the old home and a few adjoining
acres would be an easy matter Were l rich 1
would do this at once. and present the sacred
old home hearth to the Commonwealth of Mas
sachusetts. But cannot many women who are
rich combine to raise the money! If some great
American newspaper would stand as leader of
the movement it would march to success
If some Eastern ladies will begin, we of the
West will do part Sincerely,
FRANCES Z. WILLARD"
1t would be a handsome thing to do, and yet
how are we to account for Mrs. Wizards inter
est in the matter, when almost the last word
the venerable poet has uttered was in opposi-
ton to third party prohibition movement.
which it is Mrs. Wizards principal business on
earth to propagate!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-27

THE Postmaster-general is said to have
prepared bill materially modifying tho
present law relating to writing and printing
on second. third and fourth class mail matter,
and providing, in substance, that the same
liberty of judgment shall be used in regard to
the matter as was practiced before the recent
enforcement of provision of the law that
well. but Mr. Villas would have displayed
much better sense and saved vast amount
of trouble and expense to the people if he had
continued to ignore the unreasonable require
ment until it was amended
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-27

THE New York Post complains that there
were a great many ex Office holders at the re-
cent Republican club convention. Well,
what of it7 There is no law forbidding ex-
ofice-holders to take active part in a political
meeting. If the Post were the truly good.
non partisan organ it processes to be. it would
find time, occasionally, to make few remarks
concerning the participation in politics of
Democrats who now hold Office, and against
which there is a law and presidential order
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-27

THE friends of Mr.. Villas and Don Dickin-
son, who are both hung up on account of the
Senates delay in acting upon Lamar's ap-
pointment are anxious either that the latter
gentleman should resign his Cabinet Office or
that the President should withdraw the NOM
ination. AS in either of these events Mr.. Lamar
probability that the hints so broadly put will
be followed. Tine enthusiastic defender of
jeff Davis is one of Mr.. Clevelands pets, and
must have choice place.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-27

A COLUMBUS. O., paper says that E. L.
Harper, the Fidelity Bank wrecker, ''has not
been compelled TO shed his large black mus
tache or his heavy growth of hair, and, al
though he wears striped suit, it is fashion
ably cut, and he is permitted to wear fine
underclothes, white shirts linen collars and a
flaming black and red neck scarf" This is a
disgrace to the laws of Ohio, to those
charged with their enforcement. Such dis
elimination in favor of convict with money
principle of justice.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-27

Col. FRED GRANT was asked his opinio n
about Mr.. Lamar, together with number of
other leading New York politicians and law
yers. Col. Grant said
'1 remember what Mr.. Lamar said about
Lincoln, and 1 also remember what he said
about my father. The exact words he used
have gone out of my mind, but it happened
while my father was President and just after
Lamars election to the Senate from his own
State. In the course of speech he made on
that occasion, he told his constituents that
he was going to Washington to do what he
could to oppose or thwart the President But
don't care to 60 into this. Every one knows
about it. 1 simply hold that Mr.. Lamar's is
not fit nomination and hope the Republican
Senators will not support it. | can't see how
they can well do so, consistently"
To come to Congress simply to oppose
President Grant is another claim upon Re-
publican Senators for confirmation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-27

which Elizabeth Stuart Phelps bases recent
romance. Her soldier. too, had been wan
derer, unable to recall his name, an inmate
of poor houses and hospitals, a waf, vaguely
aware that he had a home, but powerless to
remember its whereabouts. Fate. more kind
to him than to the Orange county man,
restored him to reason and a measure of
earthly happiness. 1t is not impossible, how
ever, that the may be still further par
alleled by the mental restoration of the un-
fortunate Illinois volunteer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-27

THE death of Congressman Mofat. OF Mich
ican, makes it possible to reverse the political
complexion Of the delegation from that State,
and the Democrats are already making ar
Iangements to try and capture the seat at the
special election which must soon be called
At present the delegation is a tie-fve
Republicans and five Democrats-with the
vacancy to fiji. The contest of the seat from
Rhode Island, if decided the way the partisans
want it to be done, will give that State to the
Democrats in case of presidential election in
the House, and if they can elect to the Michi-
gan vacancy they viii then have majority OF
the States in the House, and could elect the